EconDefense
Authority / instrument

Loans & guarantees

Find a route to research, prototype, test or commercialize a defense-relevant technology before choosing a production pathway.

1 records in this family–mechanism intersection. These editorial groups do not expand legal scope.

What this group is not: A loan or guarantee is not equity, and a loan tag may describe lending materials or equipment rather than cash.

Basis: IND-03, IND-09, IND-21, INT-22

ACQ-33 · Test infrastructure

Finance, furnish, lend, lease or sell specialized contractor research/test facilities

An R&D contract may acquire or construct necessary specialized research/development/test facilities and equipment at U.S. expense and make them available to the contractor.

What this is not / limit: Explicitly does not authorize new construction or improvements with general utility.

Executing role: Contracting office and contractor

Authority holder

Secretary of the military department concerned

Eligibility gate

  • Facilities/equipment necessary for contract; allowable-cost rules.
  • Nonremovable installations on nonfederal land need reimbursement, land-acquisition option or other adequate U.S. protection.

Funding condition

  • R&D contract funds; loans/leases may be with or without reimbursement; sales at fair value.

All recorded limits

  • Explicitly does not authorize new construction or improvements with general utility.
  • Sale/reimbursement receipts normally go to Treasury unless another law applies.
Loans & guaranteesProperty & leases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.